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  85:426) 03-FEB-2004 14:38 Steve Thompson (steve_thompson)
  yeah, we drive on the "right" side of the road here, the left.  
  85:427) 04-FEB-2004 12:10 Steve Thompson (steve_thompson)
  Day two of the tour. Aboard the Bus  

 
  85:428) 04-FEB-2004 12:30 Thea
  Wow.  Quite a bus.  
  85:429) 04-FEB-2004 13:35 Blanton
  Do you play the Who's "Magic Bus" and the Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" while underway? That would be fun. Or perhaps "Born to be Wild", or  the Dead's "Cassidy".  There's a whole genre of rousing bus songs.  
  85:430) 04-FEB-2004 16:36 Glen
  Well, it's a rock'n'roll band or a movie
You can take your pick
It ain't bad work it if you can get it
But you gotta make it stick  

But gettin' any kind of sleep
On this rollin' motel -
That's the trick!  

(A song I learned from Jackson Browne aboard a Silver Eagle TrailLiner back in... ummm... 1977, I think it was.)

 
  85:431) 04-FEB-2004 16:43 Blanton
  Cool, Glen.  
  85:432) 04-FEB-2004 20:50 Grace
  Say Glen, you've mentioned that before. Got any old pix from the daze?  
  85:433) 05-FEB-2004 15:23 Steve Thompson (steve_thompson)
  on leaving a meeting in middlesbrough
 
  85:434) 05-FEB-2004 15:26 Blanton
  Steve, that's VERY nice.  Very interesting.  

                       Possibly magazine quality, or very nearly so.

 
  85:435) 07-FEB-2004 13:22 Steve Thompson (steve_thompson)
  Can't claim authorship of this one, my friend and colleague, Andrew Vause just sent it to me.  

 
  85:436) 08-FEB-2004 05:19 Steve Thompson (steve_thompson)
  my wife Molly's PC is poorly  

 

 
  85:437) 08-FEB-2004 12:15 Iain
  Glen, that must be Running On Empty-era, Jackson Browne (my own personal hero when I was 19-20).  
  85:438) 08-FEB-2004 12:23 Glen
  Yeah, that was the tour during which most of "Running on Empty" was recorded.  (Indeed, looking at the liner notes, I notice that song was actually recorded on the bus.)  

But I should probably quit cluttering up Steve's LS with rock'n'roll reminiscences.

 
  85:439) 08-FEB-2004 13:12 Iain
  Then let's find another place and hie ourselves there forthwith.  
  85:440) 09-FEB-2004 14:27 Steve Thompson (steve_thompson)
  Nah Keep the rock'n'roll reminiscences here where they belong  
  85:441) 09-FEB-2004 14:29 Steve Thompson (steve_thompson)
  Still on tour with the BBC Bus. Todays was Darlington Market. Jackson Browne stopped by, he said "hi BSers"  

 
  85:442) 09-FEB-2004 14:32 Iain
  There's a great Bob Marley live set called Babylon By Bus.  
  85:443) 10-FEB-2004 11:23 Steve Thompson (steve_thompson)
  From a tall building through glass.

 


  
  85:444) 10-FEB-2004 17:35 Blanton
  I like that sort of shot. It conveys three realities at once. (the outer, the inner, and the blending  ;^)  
  85:445) 11-FEB-2004 15:04 Steve Thompson (steve_thompson)
  On Tour- BBC Bus in Redcar today


 
  85:446) 11-FEB-2004 15:14 Blanton
  That one's cute. It's as if an alien ship landed behind the two smokers.  
  85:447) 11-FEB-2004 18:14 Grace Twain (tarat)
  Steve, I'm really enjoying seeing your places and people. I love the two women in this one.  
  85:448) 11-FEB-2004 20:05 Iain
  I wonder... At what point do little old ladies in headscarves start dressing like little old ladies in headscarves?  
  85:449) 11-FEB-2004 20:40 Grace
  My mother who is definitely old enough for a headscarf, won't wear one.  
  85:450) 12-FEB-2004 01:41 Steve Thompson (steve_thompson)
  I was eating a typically English meal of fish and chips and hoping by the time I was ready for my shot the ladies would not have moved on. I need not have feared, when they finished one cigarette they simply lit another. As for their headscarves, I imagine they've worn them all their lives and I have a suspicion that they may always have been old.  

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